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LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) — Could the La Tuna Fire have been knocked down at a few acres?

According to information over the Los Angeles City Fire Department scanner and information posted on its Twitter account, firefighters initally thought the La Tuna Fire was out before it could do any real damage.

But apparently, that was not the case. The fire charred nearly 7,200 acres, destroyed five houses and turned out to be the biggest fire ever in the city of Los Angeles.

Flames broke out around 1:30 p.m. Friday at the start of the Labor Day weekend. The following is the LAFD’s first tweet about the blaze.

At that time, Deputy Chief Tim Ernst said fire crews were still at the scene.

“We’re not aware of any crews being turned around during the initial phases of the fire. It would not be unusual for the incident commander to stop some of the outside agencies responding. We thought we had enough resources to handle the incident,” Ernst said.

Minutes after firefighters thought the fire was under control quickly shifted to a situation that was out of control. Firefighters blamed sudden winds.

“To have one of the largest fires, the largest in 50 years, without a single fatality is a miracle,” the mayor said.” Within 10 minutes, we had 35 additional engines there from the city of Los Angeles, Glendale and Burbank. So things came very quickly.”

“I would say this is as close to textbook as you could be,” Ernst explained.

The fire burned 7,194 acres and destroyed five houses. But Ernst quickly pointed out that firefighters also saved 1,400 homes, which had flames reaching within 200 feet of the properties. And yet, none was lost.